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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said he made a mistake in deciding who should have won the captaincy in a recent Champions League game.
The discussion about the Reds’ 1-1 draw with Midtjylland continued long after the game in the media. In fact, such discussions have not focused on the mediocre performance of the players on dead rubber.
Instead, extreme Mohamed Salah expressed his disappointment at not winning the captaincy in Denmark. Winger Trent Alexander-Arnold took up that mantle, for the first time in his Anfield career.
But while Salah was frustrated, Alexander-Arnold was delighted to lead the club of his childhood.
However, according to Klopp, the 2014 firm Divock Origi I should have taken the bracelet. The Belgian was the club’s longest-serving player in the European clash in the absence of older stars.
“The rule here is that we have a players committee,” Klopp told a news conference (via objective). “Hendo wears the bracelet, and if he’s not playing then it’s Milly [James Milner]. If those two don’t play then it’s Virgil [van Dijk] and if the three don’t play it’s Gini [Wijnaldum].
“If not everyone can play, he is usually the player who has been with the club the longest. And that’s how I saw it in my understanding. Trent did it because he spent more time at the club, professionally, not just in his youth career. “
“Someone told me later that it would have been Divock Origi, but Div was on loan and things like that. That was my fault. I didn’t make it that complicated. It was just, ‘Trent is the longest in the club, so he’s got the bracelet.’
Klopp admitted he made a mistake, but cleared things up with Salah before going public with his thoughts.
“Of course I talked to Mo afterward”, when I realized it didn’t work out so well [for him]I clarified it for him, and then he came back to talk about it in the interview, which is not a problem for me.
“Yes, I was disappointed, but I didn’t do it on purpose. I just did what I did, and if I made a mistake, it was that Divock Origi was not the captain that day! “
Klopp opens up about Salah’s comments
In another part of his interview with ASSalah admitted that he could not rule out a move to Spain. As such, questions have been raised about the Egyptian’s future at Anfield.
However, Klopp insisted that Salah said what all players would have said in the same situation.
“When Mo answered the question, it was just that these clubs might be interested and he wouldn’t rule it out.” manager said.
“Imagine, if you ask any player in the world who is not playing for Barcelona or Madrid, and you ask: ‘Can you imagine playing for them one day?’ and they say: ‘No, not for them, Spain is shit!’ or whatever.
“Why would I say that? All [Salah] What is said is, ‘We will see’ and that it is in the hands of the club. That’s true, 100 percent. It’s about the future.
“It’s really good. Obviously, you don’t have much to talk about, so we do a long story about an interview. Okay, but that doesn’t make it more important to me. Mo is a very important player to me, obviously, but the story is not!
Liverpool have had a seven-day break after their 7-0 win at Crystal Palace. In that time, they have welcomed James Milner and Xherdan Shaqiri into the fold.
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